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There is an important type of rock that is not pictured. It is called marble. | ||||
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Find out what it looks like - draw a picture of it. | |||||
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What do we use it for? | |||||
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Why do we use it for those things? | |||||
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You could find out from books, the Internet or a CD ROM. | |||||
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Describe each of the rocks in the pictures. | ||||
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You could write about the colour, the smoothness and the size of the particles. | |||||
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Which of the rocks do you think is the roughest? | ||||
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Which do you think is the smoothest? | |||||
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Which is the lightest in colour and the darkest in colour? | |||||
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Which do you think is the hardest rock? | ||||
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How could you find out which of two rocks is the hardest? | |||||
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